All CollectionsOwnership, Roles & SubnamesOwnership, Roles & SubnamesWho controls a name, how to transfer or share control, and create subnames.9 articlesRegistry and resolver: what's the difference?What a registry and a resolver do, what "permissioned" means, and where to see both in ENS Explorer.What is a resolver?A resolver answers questions about an ENS name and stores its records. Learn why your names share one, and how to give a name its own.What happened to the Manager role?There's no Manager in ENSv2. What replaced it, and how to give a second wallet the same jobs.Grant registry 'roles' to manage your name [ENS Explorer]See who can transfer your ENSv2 name or change its resolver, and give or take away a role.Grant resolver 'roles' to edit name records [ENS Explorer]Let other wallets edit your name's records. Roles sit on the resolver, so they reach every name that uses it.Transfer a nameHand an ENS name to another wallet from the Ownership tab in ENS Explorer, and decide whether your records travel with it.Find the owner of an ENS nameOpen the name, check its contact details, then try the owner's other names and X.Create a subname (ENS Explorer)How to create a subname in ENS Explorer: on an ENSv2 name, deploy a subregistry once, then create subnames in it; on an ENSv1 name, create the subname straight away.What are project subnames?What a project subname like yourname.base.eth is, where you manage it, and whether it can be your primary name.
